by Marguerite Yourcenar · Circulo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422684220
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«Memorias de Adriano» is the historical novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (365 pages, in Spanish).
Memorias de Adriano is presented as a long letter written by an elderly emperor to his adopted grandson and future successor, Marcus Aurelius. In it, Hadrian reviews his military triumphs, his fondness for poetry and music, his philosophical thought and his relationship with Antinous, in a meditation on power, love and the transience of life.
Memorias de Adriano was originally published in 1951 as Mémoires d'Hadrien; this Spanish edition includes a translation by Julio Cortázar. The work received the Prix Femina Vacaresco in 1952.
For readers of historical fiction and twentieth-century classics interested in introspection and philosophical thought.
Marguerite Yourcenar was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie Française, in 1980. In 1965, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
